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welcome to CCBRT

Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT) is a locally registered non-governmental organisation first established in 1994. It is now the largest indigenous provider of disability and rehabilitation services in the country.

CCBRT comprises a well established disability hospital in Dar es Salaam, community programmes in and around Dar es Salaam and Moshi, a training unit and an advocacy unit. Every year, around 120,000 adults and children with disabilities and their caregivers achieve a better quality of life through CCBRT services.

 

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CCBRT statistics

In November we:

carried out 22 fistula surgeries

performed 703 eye surgeries

performed 43 cleft lip surgeries

saw 341 patients for physiotherapy

manufactured 149 new devices for people with disabilities

what´s happening

Monday, 2012-02-06
(left to right) Erwin Telemans (CEO, CCBRT); Mwamvita Makamba (Chief Officer of Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Vodacom Tanzania); Stella Nzyemba (former fistula patient at CCBRT) Vodacom Tanzania launches public campaign to raise one billion Tanzanian shillings to fight fistula
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Friday, 2012-01-27
CCBRT’s CEO Erwin Telemans addressing members of the conference in Dar es Salaam. CCBRT/CBM HIV/AIDS project reaches conclusion
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Thursday, 2012-01-12
CCBRT's deputy CEO Ms Haika Mawalla welcomes Norwegian minister Anne Grete Strom Erichsen. The Norwegian Minister of Health Anne Grete Strom Erichsen visited CCBRT to witness the work on maternal and newborn health
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personal stories

Thursday, 2010-06-03 08:51

Little Aboubakary is in line waiting to be seen by the consultant at CCBRT Disability Hospital...

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changing lives

Flora walks to school with her friends, despite being born with cerebral palsy. It is not always easy for her to control her movements but, with home based rehabilitation, she can now brush her own hair and pull on her sock